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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I think the state vets are pretty lenient with those race day exams. As long as the horse does not look lame, they will usually let the horse run. A horse could have a huge ankle or a big bowed tendon, but the vet would still let the horse run as long as the horse does not jog lame.
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Where do you draw the line? it is a tough question. The fact is that horses with those obvious issues are usually not the ones that have bad breakdowns. Those kinds of horses are already protecting themselves. the scary ones and the ones that cause the bad breakdowns are the sesamoids breaking or a spiral fracture of the cannon bone, neither which is usually visable to th naked eye.